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Case BriefsHigh Courts

[Intellectual Property] Bom HC | “Party moving for injunction at eleventh hour must be prepared to face consequences”:Court while refusing to restrain Zee from using “Plex” in new channel

Bombay High Court: G.S. Patel, J., refused to pass an interim injunction restraining Zee Entertainment from using the word “Plex” in its new

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bom HC | Domain name Registrar can’t black list or block list a domain that is registered; No human element involved in overseeing legitimacy of any chosen domain name

Bombay High Court: G.S. Patel, J., while addressing a matter with regard to domain names registrations held that, Domain name Registrar can’t black

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INOX v. PVR | Del HC | No plea of tortious inducement made out; Finding of judicial adventurism and imposition of five lakhs against INOX, not warranted

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula, JJ., held that neither the finding of judicial adventurism nor imposing costs

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Del HC | Advertisement that likens Corona Beer with Coronavirus not to be reproduced, broadcasted, communicated to public

Delhi High Court: Rajiv Shakdher, J. granted injunction relief to the manufacturer of “Corona Beer” while injuncting the defendants from: reproducing, broadcasting,

Case BriefsForeign Courts

Bolton has gambled with national security of USA | US District Court says: Former NSA is exposed to potentially criminal liability, while ruling against injunction on his White House Memoir

United States District Court, Columbia: Royce C. Lamberth, J., held that, a mandated pre-publication review process is not an unconstitutional prior restraint.

Case BriefsHigh Courts

HP HC | Provision to ‘issue a Commission to make local investigation’ is not a tool to create evidence in favor of parties; order made under Or. 26 R. 9 set aside

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Ajay Mohan Goel, J. entertained a writ petition filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, where

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Madras HC | A party cannot approach HC directly for vacating an injunction without exhausting effective remedy available

Madras High Court: M. Govindaraj, J. disposed of a civil miscellaneous appeal, giving the appellant liberty to approach the trial court with appropriate

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Ajanta Pharma injuncted from selling its nutraceutical product GLOTAB in passing off suit brought by Sun Pharma; principles reiterated

Delhi High Court: Pratibha Singh, J., while allowing the suit brought by Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd., passed an order injuncting Ajanta Pharma Ltd.

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Utt HC | Questions regarding laying of a road or alignment thereof, are matters in the Executive realm and not for Court to decide

Uttaranchal High Court: The Bench of Ramesh Ranganathan, C.J. and N.S. Dhanik, J. dismissed a writ petition seeking changes in road alignment

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Bombay HC explains law regarding disparagment through TV commercials while deciding dispute between Kwality Walls and Amul

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench comprising of B.R. Gavai and Riyaz I. Chagla, JJ. partly allowed an appeal filed against the

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Not incumbent upon plaintiff anymore to lead evidence even where defendant does not appear; injunction granted on basis of website screenshots: Del HC

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Prathiba M. Singh, J. decreed a suit injuncting the defendant from unauthorisedly broadcasting the

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Court not to interfere in writ jurisdiction where civil proceedings are pending for the same subject matter

Punjab and Haryana High Court: A petition was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Tejinder Singh Dhindsa, J. wherein extraordinary jurisdiction

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Suit for injunction simpliciter maintainable where one co-owner encroaches upon the property held and possessed by all the joint owners

Jammu & Kashmir High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Sanjeev Kumar, J., dismissed a second appeal filed against the order of

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Explaining use of mark by reverse deduction trivialize trademark rights; injunction granted against use of BURGER KING

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Pratibha M. Singh, J. granted injunction in favour of the plaintiff restraining the

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S. 17 CPC envisages a suit being instituted in one of the several courts within whose jurisdiction properties may be situated

Calcutta High Court: A civil petition was decided by a Single Judge Bench comprising of Sanjib Banerjee, J., wherein the orders of

Case BriefsHigh Courts

In IP infringement cases, mere delay won’t defeat grant of injunction

Madras High Court: While relying upon the Supreme Court decision in Midas Hygiene Industries (P) Ltd. v. Sudhir Bhatia, (2004) 3 SCC 90,

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court confirms injunction against LexisNexis in the EBC copyright infringement case

Supreme Court: In an appeal filed by LexisNexis against the injunction granted by the Allahabad High Court on 1.4.2014 in favour of Eastern

Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Interim injunction application against OLA Cab in alleged predatory pricing case, rejected

Competition Commission of India:   Whilst OLA Cab (of ANI Technologies) is under the scanner of the fair play watchdog and undergoing an

High Courts

Proprietorship over the trademark lies on the exporter/ manufacturer of the goods and not on the distributor/ importer

Calcutta High Court: In a question raised before the Court as to whether an importer/ distributor of the goods which is manufactured/